App Service

Azure App Service lets you create apps faster with a one-of-a kind cloud service to quickly and easily create enterprise-ready web and mobile apps for any platform or device and deploy them on a scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.

R Server for HDInsight

Batch

Azure Batch makes it easy to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in Azure. Use Batch to scale out parallel workloads, manage the execution of tasks in a queue and cloud-enable applications to offload compute jobs to the cloud.

Container Registry

Azure Container Registry is a place to store and manage container images for all types of container deployments (Mesosphere DC/OS, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, App Service, Service Fabric, Azure Batch). The Azure Container Registry provides local storage of your container images that is close to the network. You can benefit from using familiar and open-source Docker CLI tools to push and pull images from Azure Container registry.

Container Instances

Easily run containers with a single command. With Azure Container Instances, get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs by taking advantage of per-second billing. There are no container orchestration tools for you to learn – just your application, in a container, running in the cloud.

Visual Studio Team Services

Visual Studio Team Services is a cloud-based application life cycle management (ALM) solution for everything, from hosted-code repositories and issue-tracking to load-testing and automated builds. It’s accessible from nearly anywhere, and you can create an account for free. Visual Studio Team Services is licensed separately from Azure services.

IoT Hub

Jump-start your Internet of Things project with Microsoft IoT Hub. Connect, monitor and control billions of IoT assets running on a broad set of operating systems and protocols. Establish reliable, bi-directional communication with these assets, even if they’re intermittently connected, and analyse – and act on – incoming telemetry data. Enhance the security of your IoT solutions by using per-device authentication to communicate with devices that have the appropriate credentials. Revoke access rights to specific devices to maintain the integrity of your system.

Azure DNS

Azure DNS lets you host your DNS domains alongside your Azure apps and manage DNS records by using your existing Azure subscription. Microsoft’s global network of name servers has the reach, scale and redundancy to ensure ultra-fast DNS responses and ultra-high availability for your domains. With Azure DNS, you can be sure that your DNS will always be fast and available.

Service Fabric

Service Fabric is a microservices platform used to build scalable, reliable and easily managed applications for the cloud. Addressing the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud applications, Service Fabric allows developers and administrators to avoid solving complex infrastructure problems and focus instead on implementing mission-critical, demanding workloads.

SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-grade features based on the SQL Server massively parallel processing architecture. It lets you scale data either on premises or in our cloud. It’s the first cloud data warehouse that can dynamically grow or shrink, so you only pay for the query performance that you need, when you need it, up to a petabyte scale. SQL Data Warehouse lets you use your existing Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills to integrate queries across structured and unstructured data. SQL Data Warehouse integrates with our data platform tools, including Azure HDInsight, Machine Learning and Data Factory and Microsoft Power BI for a complete data-warehousing and business-intelligence solution in the cloud. With SQL Data Warehouse, you choose where to keep your data, either in the cloud or on premises, based on your performance, security and scaling requirements.

Virtual Network

Azure Virtual Network enables you to create private networks in the cloud with full control over IP addresses, DNS servers, security rules and traffic flows. Securely connect a virtual network to on-premises networks by using a VPN tunnel, or connect privately by using the ExpressRoute service.

Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is an event-processing engine that helps you to gain insights from devices, sensors, cloud infrastructure and existing data properties in real time. It’s integrated out of the box with Event Hubs, and the combined solution can both ingest millions of events and do analytics to help you to better understand patterns, power a dashboard, detect anomalies or kick off an action while data is being streamed in real time.

Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor is a personalised recommendation engine that helps you follow Azure best practices. It analyses your Azure resource configuration and usage telemetry, then provides recommendations that can reduce costs and improve the performance, security and reliability of your applications.

Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is a managed service that lets you produce trusted information from raw data in cloud or on-premises sources. Easily create, orchestrate and schedule highly available, fault-tolerant workflows of data movement and transformation activities. Monitor service health and all your data pipelines at a glance with a rich visual experience offered through the Azure portal.

Key Vault

Azure Key Vault offers an easy, cost-effective way to safeguard keys and other secrets in the cloud by using hardware security modules (HSMs). Protect cryptographic keys and small secrets such as passwords with keys stored in HSMs. For added assurance, import or generate your keys in HSMs that are certified to FIPS 140-2 level 2 and Common Criteria EAL4+ standards, so that your keys stay within the HSM boundary. Key Vault is designed so that Microsoft does not see or extract your keys. Create new keys for Dev-Test in minutes and migrate seamlessly to production keys managed by security operations. Key Vault scales to meet the demands of your cloud applications without the hassle required to provision, deploy and manage HSMs and key management software.

Azure Active Directory B2C

Azure Active Directory, the cloud service with the proven ability to handle billions of authentications per day, extends its capabilities to manage consumer identities with a new service: Azure Active Directory B2C, now in public preview. Azure Active Directory B2C is a comprehensive identity management solution for your consumer-facing applications that can be easily integrated into any platform and is accessible from any device. The service will be free during the public preview period.

Scheduler

Azure Scheduler lets you invoke actions that call HTTP/S endpoints or post messages to a storage queue on any schedule. Create jobs that reliably call services either inside or outside Azure and run those jobs straight away, on a regular or irregular schedule or at a future date.

Security Center

Azure Security Center helps you to prevent, detect and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of all your Azure resources. It provides a central view of security across your subscriptions and lets you set policies and monitor security configurations. Policy-driven recommendations guide resource owners through the process of implementing security controls and enable the rapid deployment of integrated Microsoft and partner solutions. Using Microsoft global threat intelligence, security-related events from across your Azure deployments are automatically collected and analysed to identify actual threats and reduce false alarms. The resulting alerts offer insights into the attack and suggest ways to remediate issues.

Data Catalog

Azure Data Catalog is a fully managed service that serves as a system of registration and system of discovery for enterprise data sources. It lets users – from analysts to data scientists to developers – register, discover, understand and consume data sources. Use crowd-sourced annotations and metadata to capture tribal knowledge within your organisation, shine light on hidden data and get more value from your enterprise data sources.

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

VM Scale sets make it easy to build highly scalable applications by allowing you to easily deploy and manage identical VMs as a set. Built on the Azure Resource Manager deployment model, VM Scale sets are fully integrated with Azure load balancing and auto-scale, and support Windows, Linux, custom images and extensions.

Data Lake Store

The Data Lake store provides a single repository where you can capture data of any size, type and speed simply without forcing changes to your application as the data is scaled. In the store, data can be shared for collaboration with enterprise-grade security. It is also designed for high-performance processing and analytics from HDFS applications (i.e. Azure HDInsight, Data Lake analytics service, Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR) and tools, including support for low-latency workloads. For example, data can be ingested in real time from sensors and devices for IoT solutions, or from online shopping websites into the store without the restriction of fixed limits on account or file size, unlike current offerings in the market.

Data Lake Analytics

The Data Lake analytics service is a new distributed analytics service built on Apache YARN that dynamically scales so that you can focus on your business goals, not on distributed infrastructure. Instead of deploying, configuring and tuning hardware, you write queries to transform your data and extract valuable insights. The analytics service can handle jobs of any scale instantly simply by setting the dial for how much power you need. You only pay for your job when it is running, making it cost-effective. The analytics service supports Azure Active Directory, letting you manage access and roles easily, integrated with your on-premises identity system. It also includes U-SQL, a language that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of user code. U-SQL’s scalable distributed runtime enables you to efficiently analyse data in the store and across SQL Servers in Azure, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Azure Bot Service

Azure Bot Service enables rapid intelligent bot development, bringing together the power of the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions. Build, connect, deploy and manage intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking. Allow your bots to scale based on demand, and you only pay for the resources you consume.

SQL Server Stretch Database

With SQL Server Stretch Database, you can dynamically stretch warm and cold transactional data from Microsoft SQL Server to Azure. Unlike typical cold data storage, your data is always to hand. Stretch Database lets you provide longer data retention times than typical enterprise storage without breaking the bank. Depending on how often you’ll access the data, choose the appropriate level of service, then scale up or down as needed. Using Stretch Database doesn’t require any application changes. And you can use Stretch Database with new Always Encrypted technology, which helps to protect your data at rest and in motion – extending data in a more secured manner for greater peace of mind.

Network Watcher

Network Watcher is a service that will enable you to monitor and to diagnose conditions at a network scenario level. Network diagnostic and visualisation tools available with Network Watcher will enable you to take packet captures on a VM, to understand if an IP flow is allowed or denied on your Virtual Machine, to find where your packet will be routed from a VM and to gain insights to your network topology.

Time Series Insights

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a PostgreSQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for MySQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a MySQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

Azure Resource Manager

Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based shell experience running in the cloud to help manage your Azure resources. Cloud Shell includes support for popular command-line tools and programming languages in a shell that Microsoft maintains and updates, and you can persist files with attached Azure File storage. When used alongside Azure portal’s familiar GUI experience, Cloud Shell adds the power of an authenticated shell experience for greater flexibility. Cloud Shell saves you the trouble of configuring and maintaining an admin machine of your own by providing a clean, ready-to-use shell experience every time from virtually anywhere.

Azure Policy

Turn on built-in policies or build your own custom policies to enable security and management at scale for Azure resources. Apply policy to a resource group, subscription or even a management group that spans your entire organisation.

Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances

Reserved Virtual Machine Instances provide up to 72 percent cost savings over pay-as-you-go pricing, and up to 82 percent savings when combined with Azure Hybrid Benefit. They help improve budgeting and forecasting because they're purchased in one-year and three-year terms with a single upfront payment, while offering the flexibility to exchange or cancel at any time. Purchasing Reserved Virtual Machine Instances is easy—select only region, virtual machine series, and term, and that’s it.

Cost Management

Manage your cloud spend with transparency and accuracy. Azure Cost Management, also known as Cloudyn, helps you make the most of Azure and other clouds by providing you the tools to monitor, allocate and optimize your cloud costs so you can accelerate future investment with confidence.